Posted on August 31, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
For several years ago, since 2012., swiss animal welfare organizations –Tierschutzbund Zürich (TSB) and Animal Welfare Foundation (AWF)-have been targeting the conditions in an Australian export slaughterhouse called Meramist, where horse meat is “produced” for Europe. The pictures are shocking!
Now politicians are called upon to act.
New investigations in Australia show the poor conditions during transport, at auctions, assembly centers, and the EU-approved abattoir Meramist.
Horses are transported over long distances in cattle trucks which are completely inappropriate for them. They are brutally mistreated with sticks and electric shocks.
Feed, weather protection, and veterinary care are insufficient or completely lacking.
A large number of horses are not stunned correctly and are bolted up to five times. Some horses still show signs of consciousness when being hoisted and bled out.
The investigations, carried out over a period of more than two years, clearly show that these are not individual cases – this is systematic torture.
The European importers, among them the Belgian company Multimeatand the Swiss import association VPI, have long claimed to have animal welfare issues in overseas slaughterhouses under control with manuals and audits. How much more evidence do they need?
Furthermore, Australian horsemeat poses a health risk for European consumers.
More than 50% of the slaughtered horses are former racehorses, called “wastage” in Australia, and the risk of drug residues in their meat is particularly high.
Australia: More than half of the slaughtered horses are disused racehorses.
And I mean…Horse racing has been repeatedly shaken by scandals around the world in recent years. Australia seems to be the forerunner in all forms of animal cruelty, but the current crimes against “down” racehorses will have particularly serious consequences for the whole horse racing mafia.
We’re talking about destroying animals on an industrial scale. We see animals suffer. If anyone in the industry can justify that, it’s a criminal.
Photos from the horse collection point of Les Evans, he is one of the largest horse suppliers to the Meramist slaughterhouse.
This is what the former racing champions look like and will soon be delivered to Meramist as “battle” horses. The collection point is intentionally hidden from the public eye.
The horses are likely to die here without medical help (Image: confidential source).
An emaciated, injured horse can no longer get on its feet (Image: confidential source).
Another weak horse is also left to its own devices (Image: confidential source).
Vet treatment costs money, but this is not invested in horses intended for slaughter.
The Australian organization documented numerous bone remains and a horse skull that is found in the pens at Les Evans.
Sick and injured horses probably die here without medical help.
Australia slaughters horses exclusively for export, up to 100,000 horses per year.
And don’t forget: The meat of the tortured horses ends up on the plates of the carnivores.
Posted on August 30, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Loggerhead turtles are certainly among the most wandering sea creatures.
Immediately after hatching, they begin their long journey through the ocean. Investigations from Florida showed that the turtles use the earth’s magnetic fields to orientate themselves on their journey of up to ten years.
These loggerhead sea turtles swim thousands of kilometers through the North Atlantic, float in the North Atlantic currents, only to one day return to the beach on which they were born.
Posted on August 30, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Did you know rabbit teeth never stop growing?Or that rabbits can jump up to ten feet?As well as being social and sensitive animals, rabbits are incredibly fascinating.
We’ve rounded up eleven fun facts about rabbits that you definitely didn’t know!
1. Rabbits are escape animals
Rabbits are always on the lookout. This is particularly evident from the fact that they are very cautious and behave more fearfully. For example, when rabbits are fooled by a human, they often become numb or try to free themselves by jumping uncontrollably.
2. Rabbits move as much as cats
Rabbits have the same urge to move around like cats. They need a lot of space and love to exercise in the fresh air.
3. Rabbits digest twice
Rabbits eat a special part of their excrement called appendix feces. This enables them to digest the food that is difficult to digest, such as crude fiber.
4. Rabbits are group animals
In the wild, rabbits live in large groups and have distinctive social behavior. Like us humans, they need conspecifics to be happy.
5. Rabbits defend their territory
Rabbits are very territorial and even defend their territory in a fighting manner if necessary.
6. Rabbit teeth will grow for a lifetime
Rabbit teeth never stop growing. The animals, therefore, wear off their teeth, for example by gnawing on branches. If they do not do this, the teeth may be misaligned.
7. Rabbits warn their conspecifics with knocking noises
Rabbits signal anger, discomfort, excitement, or fear by quickly so-called drumming with their hind legs on the ground. This also warns group members.
The knock is usually followed by a quick sprint at high speed in order to outrun the possible enemy and hide in a shelter.
Posted on August 30, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Animal testing: Germany refuses to adapt to EU requirements – take action now!
Infringement proceedings are currently underway against Germany because EU requirements for the protection of animals in test laboratories have not yet been sufficiently implemented.
Eight years late, the federal government is now submitting completely inadequate draft laws, which, however, continue to ignore important animal welfare requirements.
Call on the responsible minister to remedy the deficiencies!
Brussels / Stuttgart, August 16, 2018 – breaches of contract: The EU Commission, based in Brussels, has informed six European countries about inadequacies in the national legislation on the protection of animals in the test laboratories.
Each member state had to implement the EU directive “for the protection of animals used for scientific purposes”in its laws by 2012.
However, around eight years later, the Commission still found numerous shortcomings in the national laws of Estonia,Germany, Portugal,Romania,Slovakia, and Spain.
PETAGermany, together with PETA UK, has asked the responsible ministries to no longer allow experiments on animals and is starting an online petition.
8 years too late: BMEL(German Ministry of Food and Agriculture) presents draft laws! Which is also inadequate!
In the summer of 2018, the EU Commission reprimanded those six EU countries for failing to implement various legislation on the protection of animals in test laboratories – including Germany.
Up until November 10, 2012, each EU member state had the task of implementing the “Directive 2010/63 / EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes” in its national legislation.
Now, almost eight years (!)after the deadline was exceeded, and with EU infringement proceedings on the back of its neck, the federal government is submitting corresponding drafts.
PETA criticizes that the animal experiment requirements of the EU are therefore inadequate, but not even THESE minimum requirements are met by the national legislation in Germany and in the other warned countries.
And I mean…What has the EU checked in these countries over these eight years?
Nothing, because Germany is the EU!
Germany can afford to break laws in the EU area without any consequences.
As in the present case.
If we didn’t have the undercover investigations of the animal rights activists of the “SOKO animal welfare association”, the criminals in LPT (Hamburg) and the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen would still practice their animal cruelty illegally but undisturbed.
Facit: In Germany, we have a so-called animal protection law which in fact says:” Nobody should inflict pain, suffering or harm on an animal without a reasonable cause”. The only question is, what should be a “reasonable reason”?
According to our experience and the video documentation, not only an economic interest is sufficient as a “reasonable reason “, but sadism and animal hatred as well.
In German laboratories, we have a great deal of illegal animal suffering because animal experiments are largely excluded from the Animal Welfare Act and therefore discovered violations of the law are not punished.
If the EU were not under pressure from the oligarchs, the Commission should normally have jailed those responsible eight years ago.
For information: According to the federal government, 2.8 million animals were used in animal experiments in 2017.
Around 740,000 of them were killed for scientific purposes without any tests on them.
Killing 740,000 living beings without testing them is not research. It is murder.
Posted on August 29, 2020 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
We are brought up as children with the racist prejudice to deny other beings the rights that we only recognize for our species and call human rights.
We already learn as children that animals are born to serve us as slaves, to be killed for our purposes.
The only time we come into contact with all the billions of animals is when we eat them, dress them, swallow them as drugs for which they have been tortured in laboratories.
Meat producers and meat consumers are one front, work hand in hand, and each side enjoys their privileges: the meat mafia lies to consumers with organic fairy tales, humane slaughtering, and animal protection laws that are systematically disregarded.
This is how they do the billions in business with modern slaves.
And consumers want to be lied to and literally buy a clear conscience for their meat consumption with “organic meat”, “my farmer next door”, “I rarely eat meat”.
In doing so, they are eliminating the cruel reality of animal suffering by ignoring it.
This is the only way they can maintain their consumption.
Despite videos, undercover investigations, media reports, demonstrations, Internet information … Animal rights are disregarded and are only observed if they do not limit our privileges.
No animal deserves to live as a slave, to be treated as a product or commodity.
Never forget it and stop eating animals.
Vegan is healthy, vegan is ecological, vegan prevents immense animal suffering.
Australia: More than half of the slaughtered horses are disused racehorses.
The horses are likely to die here without medical help (Image: confidential source).
An emaciated, injured horse can no longer get on its feet (Image: confidential source).
Another weak horse is also left to its own devices (Image: confidential source).
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